named and ntpd start order in rc.d

[Yuri Pankov]

Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I'm in the same situation described in this bug:
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=129146
> 
> ntpd starts when named is not yet running, fails to resolve its peers 
> and never works again until I restart it manually.

This seems to be a real bug here.  Sometimes I'm seeing the ntpd whining 
about resolve failures on start when I'm doing network maintenance, but 
I have never checked if it operates correctly once the nameservers are back.

Did you look into *why* it never works again, and how exactly it doesn't 
work -- it still seems to be running and spamming console while it's 
unable to resolve?

> That bug (of the 7.0 era) was closed as fixed, since /etc/rc.d/ntpd 
> requires ntpdate, which in turn required named.
> However, the latest statement is not true anymore, today (probably due 
> to the fact that named is no longer in base).
> 
> I guess I'm not the only one who has this problem and I wonder how 
> others are solving this issue.
> Also, should I add a comment to that bug or open a new one?